Software Engineer, Back-End

The opportunity

Grammarly is the world’s leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 30 million people and 70,000 professional teams every day.

From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly’s product offerings help people at 96% of the Fortune 500 get their point across and get results.

Grammarly has been profitable for over a decade because we’ve stayed true to our values and built an enterprise-grade product that’s secure, reliable, and helps people do their best work without selling their data.

We’re proud to be one of Inc.’s best workplaces, a Glassdoor Best Place to Work, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI.

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for Back-End Software Engineers to join our engineering teams. Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs and, in turn, influence our product roadmap.

The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure.

You can hear more from our team on our technical blog.

Your impact

As a Back-End Engineer at Grammarly, you will play a critical role in building core parts of the Grammarly product offering, infrastructure, and features to help 30 million users write more clearly and effectively every day.

As a Back-End Engineer, you will :

• Start building and pushing code in your first week and ship impactful features in your first few months.
• Build and support production services with high call rates.
• Target high availability for consumer and enterprise customers.
• Learn how to build infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Collaborate widely with internal teams such as Core, Growth, Enterprise, Trust, and Data to deliver delightful product offerings to our customers.
• Contribute to an engineering culture with a strong emphasis on documentation, testing, and user experience.
• Evaluate the systems and technology in place today while proposing systems and architecture that can scale for the future.
• Have the opportunity to mentor new hires.

We’re looking for someone who

• Embodies our EAGER values is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is inspired by our MOVE principles, which are the blueprint for how things get done at Grammarly : move fast and learn faster, obsess about creating customer value, value impact over activity, and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.
• Is able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
• Brings at least three years of experience in back-end development, ideally using Java or other JVM languages.
• Displays excellent software engineering fundamentals, including knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Demonstrates perseverance when faced with tough technical issues.
• Has some experience with AWS or other cloud offerings (GCP, Azure, etc.).
• Has experience building, deploying, and debugging production systems at scale.
• Cares about the end-user experience and strives to ensure high quality.

We invite you to share your knowledge, experience, and goals with us to help us find the best team match for you. Tell us your superpower!

Support for you, professionally and personally

• Professional growth : We hire people we trust, and we give team members autonomy to do their best work. We also support professional development with training, coaching, and regular feedback.
• A connected team : Grammarly builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. We have a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER values.

We also take time to celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific events and programs.

Comprehensive benefits : Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package that includes superior health care.

We also offer ample and defined time off, catered lunches, gym and recreation stipends, admission discounts, and more.

Compensation and benefits

Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more :

• Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
• Disability and life insurance options
• 401(k) and RRSP matching
• Paid parental leave
• Twenty days of paid time off per year, eleven days of paid holidays per year, and unlimited sick days
• Home office stipends
• Caregiver and pet care stipends
• Wellness stipends
• Admission discounts
• Learning and development opportunities

Grammarly takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US and Canada locations are categorized into compensation zones based on each geographic region’s cost of labor index.

For more information about our compensation zones and locations where we currently support employment, please refer to this page.

If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information.

Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and may be modified in the future.

United States : Zone 1 : $160,000 $321,000 / year (USD)Zone 2 : $144,000 $289,000 / year (USD) Canada : Zone 1 : $124,000 $278,000 / year (CAD)